title: [The role of medical social expertise in the social protection of disabled patients].
abstract: The dynamics of disability level in the Nijegorodskaya oblast was analyzed. The decrease of number of patients admitted as disabled for the first time and its causes was revealed. The drastic decreasing of number of patients examined in 2007 brings to consider the existence of expertise barriers in outpatient and polyclinic institutions which make the expert care less accessible. The share of persons accepted as the disabled in the total number of examined decreases too. The adequate rehabilitation services net in the oblast factually don't exist. Artificial decreasing of disability rate always leads to the decrease of social protection of patients and to the increase of mortality rate in population.
authors.forename: N K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Guseva
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Sokolov
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D010045:Outpatients; D011640:Public Policy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012426:Russia